Sorry but that's proprietary information that gives Dropbox a competitive advantage! Please remain seated, the corporate secrecy police are on their way!
I think you need to separate "the idea" from the obviously technically unfeasible implementation he gave as an example.
His idea is to make your content free to people who use it casually but to charge people who use it extensively. I think there's some merit to that. The more you use something the more valuable it becomes to you and hence the more likely you are to pay for it.
There are definitely some technical hurdles to it but on the surface it's an idea worth consideratoin.
Great Idea. I suspect you will be do most of your marketing in NYC. I will be starting a local business startup too. I am curious to learn how you market in a big city such as NYC.
After reading some comments, I just want to give some words of encouragements.
Don't worry too much about your bloated competition such as Blackboard. I am currently a college student and I hate having having to check blackboard. I would much rather have assignment and announcements emailed to me. Most students are lazy like that too. However there are several things that schools need.
-roster page where students can email the whole class or select number of students
-discussion board
-some communication channel for parents, parents heavily invested in their child and a lot of them have zero clue of what they are learning
-A simple class page incase the student wants to login and get their assignments without their clutter of their email.
Don't worry too much about your bloated competition such as Blackboard. I am currently a college student and I hate having having to check blackboard. I would much rather have assignment and announcements emailed to me. Most students are lazy like that too. However there are several things that schools need.
-roster page where students can email the whole class or select number of students
-discussion board
-some communication channel for parents, parents heavily invested in their child and a lot of them have zero clue of what they are learning
-A simple class page incase the student wants to login and get their assignments without their clutter of their email.
I love the design and the font. You should definitely save the list of students emails. Have a page where it has the class roster and be able to email students individually or groups of students.
